How to spell infer

hear itin·fer/ɪn'fɜr/verbSchwa and roots

What it means: To deduce or conclude information from evidence or reasoning.

In a sentence: From the clues in the story, we can infer that the cat was the hero.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as inferr or inferre.

Same family: infers, inferred, inferring, inference, inferential. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Infer comes from Latin "inferre," meaning "to bring into" or "to carry in." Over time, the idea of "bringing in" information became the mental act of drawing a conclusion from evidence, which is how we use "infer" today.

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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